In the Light of A Broken Moon (Episode 1) by Bri Spicer Book Tour
Title: In the Light of a Broken Moon (Episode 1)
Author: Bri Spicer
Genre: sci-fi, fantasy
Publication date: October 26th, 2020
Book Synopsis
"The Great Library – famed for protecting the powerless, preserving all knowledge, and waging war against corrupt Great Houses across the stars – lies in ruins. The Librarian homeworld has been destroyed, broken by an Imperial starfire bombardment that left no survivors. The Caedes Empire, with their megacorp allies and the shadowy crime syndicates that support them among the periphery worlds, rules unchallenged.
Selena Vernosti, once destined to become a Librarian, cloaked in crimson and revered by the thousand worlds of the long-dead Sacristae Republic, and gifted with incredibly powerful magic, now lives as a fugitive, hunted across the stars.
Demya Tzemina, once destined to take holy oaths as Selena’s knight, now spends her days earning the coin they need to survive in underground fighting rings. Every broken bone and every drop of blood pays for supplies that keep her and Selena one step ahead of their enemies.
But when Demya receives a message from Aleksan Rusrukh—the boy she and Selena both loved, who would have served as Selena’s second knight, who was reported among the dead in the final siege of their homeworld—everything changes.
Not only is he alive, Aleksan claims to have information that could radically change their future.
When Selena and Demya arrive at the rendezvous—a broken moon at the edge of charted space— to reunite with him, their triad will unravel terrible secrets, face the ghosts of their pasts, test the limits of their love, and learn the cost of creating a better world."
My Thoughts
Welcome to my stop on the book tour of In the Light of A Broken Moon with Pride Book Tours!
This book is such an amazing start to a serialized novel! I am so excited to read the follow-up episodes! There is magic and magic IN space! I've decided this is my new favorite thing. Magic for space travel. Magic to give moons atmosphere? Yes! I love it, I want more of it! Selena is a Librarian from a world now destroyed and if anyone were to find out what she truly was, it would mean a death sentence. Demya is her knight and protects them from the harsh worlds that seem to be run by an evil empire.
On top of the truly fantastic world-building, I loved the characters in this one. You can tell how much Demya and Selena love each other, but they're also still grieving the loss of their world seven years before. Yearning for each other, while they're in the same room? So much sapphic angst and my heart breaks for them. You find out in this episode that in the loss of their planet seven years earlier, they also lost their partner Aleksan, until Demya receives a message from Aleksan asking them to meet him at a broken moon. And this episode ended on such a cliff-hanger, I'm desperate to read the follow-up episodes and learn more about this world.
This was a quick read and I was not ready for it to end! I'm eager to see where the next episodes find these characters. And I really want to see more of Selena. Maybe some of the story from her point of view? That would be really interesting to see. This story really just had so many wonderful aspects, I highly recommend it. And keep an eye out for forthcoming episodes from this novel! Episode one is out now and episode two will be released December 28th!
I received a digital copy of this book from Pride Book Tours and the author as part of my participation in their tour.
Representation: bi/queer, poly, wlw
Content Warnings: depression, PTSD, and brief descriptions of standard scifi/fantasy violence, sex scenes
About the Author
Bri Spicer is an adult science fiction and fantasy author currently working on her debut science fantasy novel, In the Light of a Broken Moon, which will be serialized, with the first episode releasing on October 26, 2020. Bri's work explores romance and wonder in a star-spanning civilization where planetary systems are linked by magical sigil-warded transportation gates. In her stories, opulent royal houses, cut-throat mega-corporations, fractured empires, upstart republics, and vicious crime syndicates vie for power and influence across a thousand worlds. Oracles, patronized by the great powers, peer into the future for profit, and starmages carve out the hearts of living stars to meet the unending demand for fuel and raw materials for war. Against these forces, magic-wielding warrior Librarians, the black-armored knights who love them, and their allies strive to protect the powerless, to preserve all knowledge and learning, and to provide a path to a better world.